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Listen to 40 robot-dog legs marching in unison, and know the sound of death

When death finally comes for us, will it announce its presence with a roar? Or, perhaps, with nothing at all — letting the permanent silence that follows our eventual destruction speak for itself?

Boston Dynamics, a company whose main export appears to be unsettling videos of its robotic creations, has offered up one possible answer. Death sounds like 40 robot-dog legs, marching together in unison across a lifeless blacktop parking lot.

An April 16 video, embedded above, shows 10 of the company's Spot robots pulling a large truck. The robots work together, like a dog-sled team, and the coordinated thud thud thud of their robot paws will soon no longer be confined to the Boston Dynamics office.

"These Spot robots are coming off the production line now and will be available for a range of applications soon," the company writes in a note accompanying the YouTube video.

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